Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2019
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2019, 9:10 PM CDT for Rice County, Steele County, Minnesota. It was in force for 4 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2019, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2019, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Rice County, MN, Steele County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 10:40 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Owatonna, MN | STEELE COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED NINE DIFFERENT ROADS IN OWATONNA WHERE ROADS ARE BARRICADED DUE TO HIGH WATER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted.
862
WGUS53 KMPX 060210
FFWMPX
MNC131-147-060615-
/O.NEW.KMPX.FF.W.0009.190706T0210Z-190706T0615Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
910 PM CDT Fri Jul 5 2019
The National Weather Service in The Twin Cities has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northeastern Steele County in south central Minnesota...
Southeastern Rice County in south central Minnesota...
* Until 115 AM CDT.
* At 910 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to two inches of rain have
already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Owatonna, Medford, Clinton Falls, Merton, Moland and Owatonna
Airport.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 4403 9333 4424 9325 4424 9304 4399 9305
4398 9305
$$
BORGHOFFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Waseca | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:45 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley | 70 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:45 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 5 days |
| Jul 5, 8:45 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Carver | 8 days |
| Jul 5, 8:45 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Redwood | 7 days |
| Jul 5, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MPX | Brown | 45 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.